Photo credit: UNODC State Minister for Interior Tallal Chaudhry has called for a coordinated global strategy and technology-driven solutions to combat illegal migration, telling an international forum in Vienna that human smuggling is a transnational challenge requiring greater international cooperation, intelligence sharing and expanded legal migration pathways, according to the Interior Ministry. Pakistan Today reports…

Photo credit: Portugal resident Portugal is at the risk of creating a growing underground workforce as tighter immigration and nationality laws push more foreign workers into irregular employment, according to the head of the country’s Migration Observatory. The Resident reports that in an interview with Espresso, Pedro Gois, director of the Migration Observatory, warned that recent policy changes are driving…

Vultures are disappearing across parts of Africa for several reasons, but belief-based trade has become one of the most worrying and difficult to address. In parts of West Africa, demand for vulture heads, feathers, and other body parts is putting pressure on birds beyond the places where they are openly sold. European Wildlife reports that the…

Eight years ago, a 17-year-old boy stood in front of over 200 FIFA officials and delivered a speech. “My name is Alphonso Davies,” he said. “My parents are from Liberia and fled the civil war. It was a hard life, but when I was five years old, a country called Canada welcomed us in. My…

Photo credit: BBC I learned some so-called Nigerian youth have given South Africans living in Nigeria a 30-day ultimatum to leave Nigeria. I don’t believe we’re in the era of an “eye for an eye”. In  fact, that system is rather obnoxious and outdated. While trying to understand where the youth are coming from, I can’t…